Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
TV ShowTitle | Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids |
User score | 6.5 |
Release date | Sep 9, 1972 |
Release date of last episode | Aug 10, 1985 |
Genre | Animation, Comedy |
Director | Bill Cosby , Ken Mundie |
Production country | United States of America |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 8 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 110 |
Run time | 30 min. |
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.